Performances of Mourning in Shakespearean Theatre and Early Modern Culture
Authors: Döring, T.
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- About this book
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This study takes a look at a controversial question: what do the acts and shows of grief performed in early modern drama tell us about the religious culture of the world in which they were historically staged? Drawing on performance studies, it provides detailed readings of play texts to explore the politics, pathologies and parodies of mourning.
- About the authors
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TOBIAS DÖRING is Professor of English Literature at the Ludwig Maximilians-Universität, Munich, Germany, and review editor for the yearbook of the German Shakespeare Association. His previous books include Caribbean-English Passages (2002) and Performances of the Sacred in Late Medieval and Early Modern England (2005).
- Reviews
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'...a timely and welcome contribution to this field...a densely argued, rewarding study, offering readers a wealth of material regarding rituals of mourning and commemoration in the studied texts and early modern England more generally...' - Wolfram R. Keller, Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik
'In eloquent prose, and with clarity and precision of argument, Döring shows how the Shakespearean theatre, in its repetitious, commemorative, and comic performances of mourning, accomplished the necessary cultural work of habituation.' - Katharine Goodland, Sonderdruck aus Archiv für das Studium der neueren Sprachen und Literaturen
- Table of contents (6 chapters)
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Introduction
Pages 1-23
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Politics of Mourning
Pages 24-69
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Pathologies of Mourning
Pages 70-109
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Physiologies of Mourning
Pages 110-148
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Parodies of Mourning
Pages 149-188
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Performances of Mourning in Shakespearean Theatre and Early Modern Culture
- Authors
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- T. Döring
- Series Title
- Early Modern Literature in History
- Copyright
- 2006
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan UK
- Copyright Holder
- Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited
- eBook ISBN
- 978-0-230-62740-6
- DOI
- 10.1057/9780230627406
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-0-230-00153-4
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-1-349-27997-5
- Series ISSN
- 2634-5919
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- VIII, 223
- Topics
